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(noun) building
the act of constructing something
during the construction we had to take a detour; his hobby was the building of boats
(noun) building
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
their main business is home construction; workers in the building trades
(noun) structure
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
the structure consisted of a series of arches; she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons
(noun) mental synthesis
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
(noun) grammatical construction, expression
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner
(noun) twist
an interpretation of a text or action
they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct